Comments on: The Chicago Principles Took a Sick Day at UChicago’s Anti-Semitism Roundtable https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2025/05/30/the-chicago-principles-took-a-sick-day-at-uchicagos-anti-semitism-roundtable/ Reforming Our Universities Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:47:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jonathan https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2025/05/30/the-chicago-principles-took-a-sick-day-at-uchicagos-anti-semitism-roundtable/#comment-1262763 Fri, 30 May 2025 18:18:15 +0000 https://www.mindingthecampus.org/?p=31465#comment-1262763 “I never experienced anti-Semitism on my campus.” Sure, “they shouted ‘murderer’ at me, but this was because of [what] the university [was doing], not because I was Jewish.”

This might be distasteful, but it seems to me to be fit in the category of “protected speech.” Hardly what I would call “anti-Semitism.”

The Hamas/Gaza war induces rather ambiguous reactions in me. Including the pathetic record of Israel in explaining what it has been doing. As Trump notes, the aerial photos above Gaza do not the feeling that Israel has a great look to present to the world.

It seems to me that the way to handle what is happening on campus is not to suppress the anti-Israel and even pro-Hamas speech. Rather, engage these with better argumentation, public diplomacy, and some kind of vision for moving forward in the Middle East in a way that will be more favorable to various groups.

Israel seems now to be pushing the idea that it is trying to do something for the Gazans. I only wish they had started at this a year and a half ago.

Or really, maybe 20 years ago. When they made the huge blunder of letting Hamas tke over.

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